A 25 year-old otherwise healthy male presented to the Emergency Department with a pruritic rash over his abdomen and chest for 2 days. The patient had been swimming and surfing along the South shore of Long Island, NY in August, and noticed an itchy, papular rash develop on his chest and abdomen approximately 2 hours […]
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A 58 year-old male was wave-sailing (windsurfing in surf) and attempting to come to shore. As he was carrying his gear shoreward he was hit by a breaking wave, and the 33 cm single fin on his board caused a large laceration to his left lower leg. The patient described severe bleeding to his leg which could not be […]
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A 48-year-old surfer sustained a 1cm linear laceration to his anterior lower leg while surfing. The waves were 3-4 feet the water temperature was 58℉ (14℃), and turbid. The surfer stated he was surfing over a rocky bottom, bumped his leg against something, and continued surfing. Upon removing his wetsuit, he noted a small linear […]
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HPI 63-year-old male surfer in Northern California was found floating in shore break by fellow surfers. He was wearing a full wetsuit and last seen riding a 5-foot wave, perhaps 5 minutes before the incident. When other surfers arrived to assist, the victim was not breathing spontaneously, had limp muscle tone and was blue. He […]
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History An 18-year-old male was surfing a thruster shortboard in 5 foot waves. He fell on takeoff, was tumbled, and his board recoiled striking him in the right eye, causing a significant right upper eyelid laceration. He was transferred from a walk-in clinic to our tertiary-care trauma center for ophthalmology consultation. He states his vision […]
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A 29-year-old female was seen in the emergency department with a chief complaint of laceration. Earlier in the day while surfing she sustained a laceration from the fin of her surfboard and was subsequently dragged in the water. Bystanders helped her out of the ocean, at which point she reported significant hemorrhage from her left […]
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Chief Complaint: A 57 year-old female who had been body boarding presented with a chief complaint of neck pain, weakness and pain in her arms and hands. History of Present Illness: The patient had been bodyboarding in 2-3 foot shorebreak over a cobblestone bottom when she was pitched forward by a wave and hit the […]
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